[ILUG] colored vim...

[Niall O Broin]

kevin lyda said, in a piece of blatant flame-bait which I can't ignore

> vim-enhanced rpm.  add this line:
> 
> syntax on
> 
> you should be a trained and experienced vi user to do this since vi is a
> difficult and hard to use editor.  obviously elisp is much more
> simplistic to learn for the new user.

[X]Emacs as shipped with RedHat, and indeed probably any current Emacs built
with defaults, supports syntax highlighting of Perl, among many others, right
out of the box. And if I decide that I don't like how vim handles Perl, can I
fix it other than by recompiling the editor ? Does it have a reasonable
extension language ? (Lisp's reasonableness (is not (up for (discussion))))

OK, maybe the average person finds fixing his Emacs' behaviour by writing elisp
a little difficult. The average person doesn't re-write his kernel every day, but
he can if he wants - isn't that the whole point ?

Kindest regards,


Niall  O Broin		

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